I think this is the best “Artificial Intelligence” Sci-Fi movie I have ever seen so far. This blends into the AI so real and close to true human intelligence that not only do you see every real human emotion, such as fear, pain, and happiness, love and compassion. You also see the AI become fully self aware of one self. At first the story isn’t making much sense as to the origins of the plot and you are showered with Sci-Fi Futuristic imagery in your face. They place you in a space ship style bunker deep in the Japan mountains. All the way to high tech doors and gadgetry throughout the film. The time is around 2046 or some around there so the attention to detail is beautifully illustrated with a blend of robotics and high tech jargon. At first you are seeing the lead character spend countless hours and days into research and tech poking all through each scene but soon you see he is preparing to literally duplicate his dead wife from a fatal car accident that left her dead with only her backed up hard drive of her brain subconsciousness archive. Being in the future, they lightly graze across some legal aspects of being able to backup and store human subconsciousness but it’s clear that he has hers and intends to drop it right into the realist robot man has ever created. Yet it also seems this might be illegal to either his job or to authority of some kind. You start to notice he has made several attempts to build prototypes before the latest final one. Each of the robots he dumped AI in each one but since it was trial runs it went in phases of upgrades. Meaning Robot 1 has the brain ceiling of a 5 year old max and can’t develop higher. Then the next has the brain function of an 8 year old. Next and last is the one that can fully execute decision making while also feel love and compassion, guilt and reward. You see that these prototypes are not suppose to his wife at all and just trial runs of basic AI skills. So he sort of treats them as family at first as if he knows they a real robot minds and he explains to them all that they are family. This comes off a bit weird at first but just trust in the build up that there is a reason he is pretending they are like little family robots he can talk to. Once he continues through finalization you get brief flashbacks of before his wife was killed. Brief moments of who she was and why he was so deeply madly in love with her. Also how deeply she loved him back. You start to get drifted in the love story of the whole thing and rooting for him to recreate the love his life that he lost so tragically from a car accident that he was even riding in the car next to her in. As the movie shifts through advancements in the final robot phase that will become his wife again, you start to get this impression that not only is he a incredibly smart dude but he is also working for the government on top secret robotics experiments. There are several scenes of the lead character getting in hot water by seemingly higher up officials government types who only want him to focus on certain aspects of his duties. They make references to big companies funding his AI work shop and how he better act in compliance or they will pull his funding plug and take legal action on him. This makes him scramble to get his wife in order as fast as he can before authorities take her away. He is so close to making a true AI with the luck of saving her memory so he knows its a race against the clock. Soon you see another plot twist that he is able to have brief and short video action with his actual wife through the backed up memory archives he so fortunately had saved through the car accident. Also each robot of previous design starts to get jealous of each other. You even watch one robot commit suicide which was actually super sad. He took parts off an older more obsolete model and was working on a better model so it got sad and older version decided to walk deep into the water to kill itself. Then the late model one finally is fully operational, to the point of walking and talking and appearing near human. feeling a sense of touch and sleeping, having dreams. Able to eat as a simulator and actually taste things. The skin feels real and the robot has real actual memories of them together. They start to do things together, dance around the house and go on runs. You see the robot wife act like it’s actually human and start to have feelings for the maker. You even think to yourself when is the robot sex scene going to happen. However the twist on that is even better. The final draft robot even slips into bed with him one night. You think this is it, this is it, robot sex pound town. She gets in bed with him and the scene starts to take too long to start the cool sexual stuff which gives you the impression something is wrong…oh shit…yep you start to think what if he freaks the fuck out and isn’t quite ready to have a robot sex scene with his wife. Or her trying to get fucked by human dick. Just when you realize that thought is a possibility he wakes up and jumps straight the fuck out of skin in fear and sticks to the ceiling with fright. She freaks out too and runs away and computer style crashes while remembering all of the car crash memories and what happened to her through it. When she awakes the authorities finally had enough of him and decide he breached contracts of his research facility and should be arrested. They swarm his Japanese futuristic bunker with mega tech aircraft’s like he was the worlds most wanted. Last minutes the robot wife discovers that she is actually NOT the final robot as he seemed to indicate and the very last finishing touch is to actually override her robot subconscious he built from scratch & replace with his wife’s actual real deal subconsciousness that was actually authentic. Once robot hottie figures this out she goes ape shit and almost tries to shoot the main character with a futuristic gun that apparently was given to him but some higher up agent that semi liked him. She points it at him to ultimatum either let his wives real subconscious die OR make a new relationship with the prototype version of AI robot. The final prototype is in complete sadness as it now makes sense why he wouldn’t get freaky with her in the bed because she was not only NOT his real wife. She was also a real robotic intelligence he built and not the real captured archive of his wife that will soon replace her. So she finally submits out of sadness and fear yet love for her creator. She decides to drop the weapon and give in to have her data completely erased with his wife’s actual archived mind and do an override. The final revised last phase you see being built inside the state of the art robot lab with mechanically made bones, organs and features. When they show the way the robot is built and constructed in his top secret spy lab you will be tripped out. In fact you should eat an edible before you watch it and really drift into a hi-tech wonderland (cheech & Chong Voice). The best part is the ending, when this fucker ends you are going to have your whole mind scrambled into pix-elated dust. You will have your own brain hard drive cooked into burnt hair smell. The ending is such a mind fuck that you will question the entire movies plot. Everything you thought you knew about the character into a distant mind blender of imaginative thoughts. Check this one out for a look at how the future might have funeral services and with a chance to talk to our loved ones for a very short time…after they actually die.